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Toray and Codimag Collaboration Delivers Cost, Productivity Benefits to Label Converters

Waterless offset with the Codimag VIVA 420 press and Toray plates expands range of applications, competes favorably with flexography.

For more than two decades, waterless offset printing pioneer Toray and narrow web press manufacturer Codimag have sustained a deep partnership that has helped extend the environmental, quality and productivity advantages of waterless offset printing to a growing number of narrow web applications, including labels, cardboard, film, in-mould labeling, shrink sleeves, security printing and more. At Labelexpo Europe 2019, the two companies displayed the latest results of this collaboration, providing label printers/converters with proof that by migrating all or some of their production from flexography to waterless offset printing, they can substantially improve both quality and bottom line.

Read full article on Toray’s website

Labelgrafic and Codimag : how Aniflo helps converters to transition from sheetfed offset to roll to roll business

Labels & Labelling has just published a brand new article on the success story of Labelgrafic in Spain.

This label converter decided to transition from sheet fed offset wet glue labels to roll to roll business.

The collaboration between Codimag and this Spanish company is highlighting how the right technology and a dedicated support from Codimag can help label converters achieve new markets, increasing their productivity and increasing their margins, thanks to waterelss offset and Aniflo. Read the full article here.

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Codimag appoints agents Lapeyra y Taltavull to promote Aniflo label printing technology in Spain and Portugal

Bondoufle, France, 8 February 2019: Label press manufacturer Codimag announces the appointment of Lapeyra y Taltavull, S.L.. of Barcelona, to represent its Aniflo printing technology in Spain and Portugal.

Lapeyra y Taltavull was established more than 80 years ago to supply packaging materials to the region’s pharmaceutical industry. Forty years later, it began representing international suppliers in the printing and packaging markets, building long associations with major European press and auxiliary equipment manufacturers.

“We are very enthusiastic to start collaboration with such a renowned company as Lapeyra & Taltavull,” said Pierre Panel, export sales engineer at Codimag. “We have had a very natural contact with Lapeyra as we share the same company values and approach to customer service, and long term vision of business.”

At the heart of Codimag’s presses is Aniflo technology that, using waterless offset, offers the quality of offset, the simplicity of flexo and the flexibility of digital.

By using an anilox inking system, problems usually associated with offset are eliminated: no ink/water balance issues; no ink key settings; no ghosting. Combined with fast-set up, low plate and ink costs, a fully digital workflow and print speeds of up to 75m/min, Codimag’s Aniflo presses are an attractive alternative to traditional and digital printing.

“The company’s Aniflo system is an alternative to digital, offering fast-turnaround times, high print quality and cost-effective production,” said Eduard Segarra, commercial director, narrow web, Lapeyra y Taltavull. “This makes Aniflo ideal not only for wine labels, but also for food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and industrial label applications and run lengths that can be up to several thousand linear metres with no absolutely color switch.”

Lapeyra y Taltavull will be increasing the number of people serving narrow web customers as a result of the new partnership with Codimag.

“We will be providing installation engineering, training, fast response to technical queries, service and support, and consultancy in addition to sales and marketing activities,” Segarra said. “Codimag has a unique proposition that we believe will be very attractive to Iberian label printers.

Versatile press options

Codimag produces three presses based on Aniflo technology. The VIVA 340 Evolution press is a stand-alone option suitable for printers with offline finishing capabilities. The VIVA 340 and VIVA 420 presses offer the same features and capabilities in 340mm and 420mm widths and are configured with inline finishing options that can include hot-foil, flatbed foil, fluted foil, photopolymer embossing, flexo varnishing, lamination, screen printing and die-cutting.

“This technology can address the challenges faced by Spanish and Portuguese printers that include maintaining uptime, optimising output and maximising returns while printing short and medium runs with tight deadlines,” Segarra concluded. “The low cost of plates and economical ink combined with short-run capabilities make these exciting presses that can increase competitiveness without compromising print quality.”

Lapeyra y Taltavull will provide live working demonstrations of Codimag’s VIVA 340 Evolution press at its Graphispag 2019 booth (stand C30, Fira Barcelona, 26 – 29 March), giving visitors a real-time appreciation of the quality and agility of Aniflo technology.

About Aniflo Technology

Aniflo combines offset quality, flexo simplicity and digital flexibility. It features an offset unit, with offset plates and a simple anilox delivery system that brings a uniform ink amount across the web. With low operational costs, Aniflo is an economical choice for high-definition quality short and medium runs on any commonly used label substrate – filmic or paper. Plate costs and imaging times are very short: all plates for the press can be prepared within about 15 minutes. Because it is intermittent, fewer consumables are needed, making Aniflo suited for short and medium run work. The high definition capability and superior stability means Aniflo can print in extended gamut, offering over 90 percent of the PMS colours without any need for ink changes and consequential washing.

About Codimag

For 40 years, Codimag has designed, manufactured and sold printing presses with high added-value at its facilities in Bondoufle, France. Today, it is the world leader in intermittent waterless offset label printing. Codimag offers solutions tailored to label printers’ needs with a high level of innovation, both in terms in technology and application, making its presses productive and cost-effective for many different markets. With a worldwide network of agents, Codimag is able to take its technologies around the world, and support its customers in a profitable, long-term relationship.

For Further Press Information

For further press information, please contact Pierre Panel, export sales manager, Codimag and/or Eduard Segarra, Narrow Web Division responsable for Lapeyra & Taltavull

Pierre Telephone: +33 (0)1 60 86 40 75; Email: office@codimag.fr

Eduard Telephone: +34 680 429 206; Email esegarra@lapeyra.com

Visit the Codimag website at : www.codimag.fr / Twitter: @Codimag_FR

And follow the Codimag pages on Linkedin, Instagram and Youtube !

Postal Address:

Codimag, Z.I. Les Bordes, 2, rue Louis Nicolas Robert, 91924 Bondoufle Cedex

PR Contact:

Adrian Tippetts, Tippetts & Partners Ltd, Telephone: +44 (0)7799 14 18 42; Email: Adrian@adriantippetts.com

Print Pack India 2019

We will be pleased to welcome you on Print Pack India in the coming days ! Codimag and its Indian partner Genius flexo will exhibit in Hall 3 stand B28. Come to discover our latest technologies and the upmost performances of Aniflo. Offset Quality, Flexo Productivity, Digital Flexibility. Let’s print the future together !

Travel through the most beautiful labels

Discover how label converters can create the most beautiful labels, in one pass, thanks to Codimag technology

How Aniflo improves your productivty for short run. An article by Printweek India

In a tech-talk with Benoit Demol, president, Codimag about the Aniflo technology

The new Codimag Aniflo Viva 340 is a modular press. Explain the extent of modularity and flexibility?

Among semi-rotary presses, Codimag’s is the only one that combines high-speed, output and easy set-up. The one that you see here is a press with hotfoil stamping, embossing, foiling, with screen and a flexo head. You see a press that can print virtually any label job. And it is so precise, that it can do re-registration. You can do a six-colour job and come back to do another six colours on the pre-printed rolls. Moreover, Codimag technology is an open solution. It can facilitate communication with any software including pre-press workflow, MIS and ERP solutions. The new Codimag press is ready for Industry 4.0 standards.

Explain how the Aniflo inking works.

One rubber roller receives the ink from an anilox with a chambered anilox and a chambered doctor blade. These components enable fast changeovers. When you want to change the ink, you just change the anilox. If you are using something like a hexachrome print (Extended Gamut Printing) you don’t even need to change the inks. An important philosophy of Aniflo technology is ‘Extended Gamut Printing.’ This is the equivalent of digital printing, with a fixed palette of four to seven colours.

What’s the advantage?

It is commonly accepted that digital is good for runs of, say, 400-500 impressions. The breakeven on flexo is in practice somewhere between 14,000 and 15,000 impressions, primarily because of the plate cost. With Aniflo, you have a machine that starts breaking even at 500 to 600 impressions, a little more than the breakeven point for digital. Moreover, it gives consistency of flexo because of the inking system, resulting in a very high quality print. Levels of 200lpi are the norm and stochastic screen can be achieved at 2400dpi.

Shorter ink chain has also been featured by Heidelberg’s Anicolor. How different is the temperature control in Codimag?

If you look at the structure, the conventional flexo press has the ink train, which is huge; plate cylinder; blanket; and the impression cylinder. With Codimag’s Aniflo technology, you have the anilox roller, chamber doctor blade, one rubber roller, plate, and blanket impression roller. Here you have the anilox with precise temperature control to vary the ink density from the roller with blanket and bearer. This also gives the advantage of eliminating the occurrence of ghosting. Furthermore, Anicolor is using wet offset technology, whereas Codimag’s technology, Aniflo, uses waterless offset technology, avoiding the need for ink/water balance settings, thus achieving optimum results directly without any adjustment.

Explain the process of precisely controlling the ink shades and time required for the shift and wastage?

There are several points of temperature control in an Aniflo unit. In the Anilox, the temperature control offers the opportunity to adjust density by influencing the viscosity of the ink. Additionally a patented IR temperature control on the blanket allows for even transfer of ink.

Eliminating water from the process leads to rise in temperature due to friction. How is that taken care of?

By using the waterless offset technology with compatible plates, there is no need for ink/water balance settings. Temperature uniformity is maintained in the anilox. Basically, you are controlling the flow of the ink by controlling the temperature in the anilox. At the blanket level, you want the ink to be transferred completely, which is helped by the IR system. Heating the blanket eases the transfer on the substrate. It’s a combination process that is perfected without any consumable requirement or playing around with keys or eliminating the whole process of the ink-water balance. In short, it controls density consistency and does not require – ink-water balance, key adjustment, which eliminates ghosting, toning, and inertia. Plus because it is a semi rotary press, there’s no cooling required. It can be programmed to run any repeat you want at a speed of 60-75 metres per minute.

But the conventional flexo presses run at around 120-150 metres per minute, some even faster?

These are high-end presses sure, but when they are running at the label print plants, I wonder how many of them really run it at that speed when doing high colour jobs, which would generally then be run at 80-90 mtrs per minute. Furthermore, if you add finishing units, the speed has to be reduced (die cut, foil, screen print…). That’s why the speed is not the limit, the key factor to produce more is to reduce set up time, and that’s precisely whats Aniflo offer, with the lowest set up time and waste, a strong flexibility with semi rotary technology.

No ink keys mean you lose control over the ink zones. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Any printing process demands that you need equal density on all the four corners, along and across the web. That’s what the Aniflo does. There are different views. A label printer may view it as a disadvantage, while some see it as an advantage, because you no longer have the ink keys which the operator will use as per his perception as a result, inconsistency creeps into a job. Aniflo is stable, predictable and repeatable. You print precisely what you want. Aniflo offers repeatability, just like flexo. But with the Aniflo, you are able to vary the density without changing anilox but tweaking the temperature.

How about plate availability?

The main suppliers of waterless offset plates are Toray, and Presstek. In India, Toray is now enhancing the availability of its plates through its partnership with TechNova. Compared to flexo, the plate cost for the Aniflo technology is low, and this contributes to a lower break-even point.

What’s the makeready time?

Codimag is perhaps the only press maker at the Labelexpo show which will accept a computer file from the customer, and print it in 30 minutes. The plates are imaged, processed, and mounted, and the job is printed at the stand. Incidentally, if you have a prepared plate, it’s a question of mounting and running it. The web path is straight throughout, so there’s less wastage. It’s a servo controlled system, so once the repeat size is specified, the makeready time should be less than 10 minutes.

The dry offset plates have silicone coating, does that affect disposal?

It is as environment-friendly as any process using UV inks. As for the silicon coating, in the whole pressure-sensitive industry, every release liner has a silicone coating, which is million times more than the plate volume.

Read full article on http://www.printweek.in/features/demol-aniflo-label-job-break-500-600-impressions-27276

Codimag appoints DewaFlex as regional partner to strengthen support in Benelux

Codimag appoints DewaFlex as regional partner to strengthen support in Benelux

Bondoufle, France, 17 April, 2018:

Label press manufacturer Codimag has appointed DewaFlex as strategic business partners for the Benelux, as the company seeks to expand its presence and make its Aniflo printing technology more accessible to the region’s label converters for short and medium runs.

Founded in 2013 with headquarters in Roubaix, France, DewaFlex works in close partnership with label and packaging converters in that country and across the Benelux, providing comprehensive technical support, advice and business consultancy on behalf of leading flexo and offset technology providers.

Codimag’s Aniflo technology, featured in the company’s 340mm and 420mm-wide VIVA presses, comprises a waterless offset unit, offset plates and a simple anilox ink delivery system. Its ability to achieve high definition print at speeds up to 75m/min with minimal manual input, low waste and plate imaging times of just three minutes make Aniflo presses ideal for meeting a growing demand for high-quality labels in run lengths up to 8000 linear metres. Presses can optionally include a choice of value-added finishing processes inline such as rotary and flat-bed hot foil stamping, embossing, flexo varnish and lamination, intermittent rotary screen printing, die cutting, stripping and slitting.

Benoit Demol, president, Codimag, comments: “Increasingly, Benelux label printers are seeking ways to meet the growing demand from the region’s retail goods producers for shorter production runs and fast turnaround times. With its short setup times, offset-equivalent quality on a wide range of substrates, high speed and controlled ink costs, Codimag’s Aniflo presses provide a competitive solution for offering a flexible service, as well as meeting high output targets.”

The announcement follows the installation of a VIVA 340 label press in the first quarter of 2018 at a label printing facility in the West Flanders province of Belgium, supplying the food and beverage markets. DewaFlex’s initial plans for the region are to raise awareness and understanding of the Aniflo process as well as its benefits, for a wide range of consumer labelling markets.

Demol comments: “Working with DewaFlex in France gave us an appreciation of the company’s deep knowledge of the printing and narrow web markets. We were also delighted to partner with Dewaflex because of their dynamism, a strong service-oriented culture, integrity and a commitment to creating value for our customers.”

Pieter Dewaele, founder and managing director, DewaFlex, comments: “We are looking forward to starting our partnership with Codimag, as we share their vision of working together with customers in order to achieve better printing results. We are happy to be offered the opportunity to partner up with Codimag and their innovative Aniflo printing system.”

The appointment of DewaFlex is part of Codimag’s wider plan to strengthen its world-wide sales and support network. Codimag has appointed Graw as its representatives for Poland, and is in discussion with candidate agencies for Croatia, Russia, Slovenia and South East Asia.

Photo Caption

Left to right: From Dewaflex, Niels Soenen (commercial sales manager) and Pieter Dewaele (founder and managing director); and from Codimag, Benoit Demol (president) and Jean-Claude Léger (sales engineer France / Benelux)

About Aniflo Technology

Aniflo combines offset quality, flexo simplicity and digital flexibility. It features an offset unit, with offset plates and a simple anilox delivery system that brings a uniform ink amount across the web. With low operational costs, Aniflo is an economical choice for high-definition quality short and medium runs on any commonly used label substrate – filmic or paper. Plate costs and imaging times are very short: all plates for the press can be prepared within about 15 minutes. Because it is intermittent, fewer consumables are needed, making Aniflo suited for short and medium run work. The high definition capability and superior stability means Aniflo can print in extended gamut, offering over 90 percent of the PMS colours without any need for ink changes and consequential washing.

About Codimag

For 40 years, Codimag has designed, manufactured and sold printing presses with high added-value at its facilities in Bondoufle, France. Today, it is the world leader in intermittent waterless offset label printing. Codimag offers solutions tailored to label printers’ needs with a high level of innovation, both in terms in technology and application, making its presses productive and cost-effective for many different markets. With a worldwide network of agents, Codimag is able to take its technologies around the world, and support its customers in a profitable, long-term relationship.

About DewaFlex

Since 2013, DewaFlex has helped customers throughout France and the Benelux improve print performance and quality, as a commercial agent and technical advisor in flexo and related printing industries.

A comprehensive range of print product is offered by DewaFlex such as plate mounting machines, slitter/rewinders and anilox rolls, with reputable brands including JM Heaford, Flexor and Apex International.

DewaFlex also specializes in anilox cleaning and maintenance solutions, offering self-developed daily cleaning products, ultrasonic cleaning machines, and deep cleaning on site (www.dewaclean.net).

For Further Press Information

For further press information, please contact Pierre Panel, export sales manager, Codimag

Telephone: +33 (0)1 60 86 40 75; Email: office@codimag.fr

Visit the Codimag website at : www.codimag.fr / Twitter: @Codimag_FR

Postal Address:

Codimag, Z.I. Les Bordes, 2, rue Louis Nicolas Robert, 91924 Bondoufle Cedex

PR Contact:

Adrian Tippetts, Tippetts & Partners Ltd, Telephone: +44 (0)7799 14 18 42; Email: Adrian@adriantippetts.com

Codimag appoints GRAW as agents for its Aniflo label printing technology in Poland

Codimag expands its international agent network by choosing Graw as partner for the Polish market.

Bondoufle, France, 8 March, 2018:

Label press manufacturer Codimag is expanding its global support network by appointing GRAW, based in Ozorków (Łódź), as agents for Poland. Established in 1994 and comprising 13 staff, GRAW represents several leading providers of technology to the label and packaging converting industry.

Codimag’s roll-to-roll label printing presses are based on the company’s Aniflo technology, which comprises a waterless offset unit, with offset plates and a simple anilox ink delivery system. The process combines the high quality and fast pre-press workflow of offset, with the operational simplicity of flexo. High-definition plates can be imaged within three minutes, assuring fast setup times and outstanding quality on all commonly used label substrates. Aniflo’s stability allows expanded gamut printing, reaching over 90 per cent of the PANTONE® Colour range without ink changes or consequential washing, and speeds of up to 75 metres per minute. For offset and flexo printers especially, Aniflo is easy to understand, as operators will be familiar with the workflow and method of ink supply.

Codimag offers dedicated and hybrid label presses based on its Aniflo technology. The 340mm-wide VIVA 340 and 420mm-wide VIVA 420 presses include value-added finishing processes inline such as rotary and flat-bed hot foil stamping, embossing, flexo varnish and lamination, intermittent rotary screen printing, die cutting, stripping and slitting. The 340mm-wide Viva 340 Evolution, a dedicated six-colour Aniflo press is ideal for integration with an existing offline finishing workflow.

Benoit Demol, managing director, Codimag, comments: “We have been advised by a mutual partner to work with GRAW. We first met them during Labelexpo Europe 2017, and we appreciated their enthusiasm, dynamism, and their very deep understanding of the narrow web market.

“The partnership comes at a time when brand owners in Poland are seeking supplies of labels and packaging in shorter volumes and, often, with reduced lead-times. The support of GRAW will give easier access to Codimag’s VIVA Aniflo printing technology, and provide the country’s label converters a with competitive, productive solution for the growing proportion of orders ranging between 250 and 8000 linear metres, without the excessive ink costs.”

Richard Drozd, chief executive officer, GRAW comments: “We are very happy to start the collaboration with Codimag. We have almost 25 years of experience in introducing innovative solutions and technologies to the Polish printing market. Narrow web printers represent a large proportion of our clientele and, by representing Codimag, we will be able to introduce innovative technologies such as Aniflo to the Polish market. Together we will put every effort to make solutions offered by Codimag widely recognised and appreciated as other technologies. Our company has just entered a phase of dynamic growth and we are expanding our offer with high quality solutions. Therefore, we see our partnership with Codimag as a great success and important moment in the history of our company. We are looking forward to a long and fruitful cooperation.”

Codimag intends to further strengthen its global sales network, and is currently in discussion with agents in Croatia and Slovenia, Russia and South East Asia.

About Aniflo Technology

Aniflo combines offset quality, flexo simplicity and digital flexibility. It features an offset unit, with offset plates and a simple anilox delivery system that brings a uniform ink amount across the web. With low operational costs, Aniflo is an economical choice for high-definition quality short and medium runs on any commonly used label substrate – filmic or paper. Plate costs and imaging times are very short: all plates for the press can be prepared within about 15 minutes. Because it is intermittent, fewer consumables are needed, making Aniflo suited for short and medium run work. The high definition capability and superior stability means Aniflo can print in extended gamut, offering over 90 per cent of the PANTONE® Colour range without any need for ink changes and consequential washing.

About Codimag

For 40 years, Codimag has designed, manufactured and sold printing presses with high added-value at its facilities in Bondoufle, France. Today, it is the world leader in intermittent waterless offset label printing. Codimag offers solutions tailored to label printers’ needs with a high level of innovation, both in terms of technology and application, making its presses productive and cost-effective for many different markets. With a worldwide network of agents, Codimag is able to take its technologies around the world, and support its customers in a profitable, long-term relationship.

For Further Press Information

For further press information, please contact Pierre Panel, export sales manager, Codimag

Telephone: +33 (0)1 60 86 40 75; Email: office@codimag.fr

Visit the Codimag website at : www.codimag.fr / Twitter: @Codimag_FR

Postal Address:

Codimag, Z.I. Les Bordes, 2, rue Louis Nicolas Robert, 91924 Bondoufle Cedex

PR Contact:

Adrian Tippetts, Tippetts & Partners Ltd, Telephone: +44 (0)7799 14 18 42; Email: Adrian@adriantippetts.com

PU GRAW

Michał Brendzel- Sales Manager

Tel.+48 42 718 21 21

Email: graw@graw.pl

Postal address:

ul. Kolejowa 2,

95-035 Ozorków,

Poland